Review of By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission, Charles Murray, Crown Forum, 2015, 336 pages; ISBN-13: 978-0385346511: $17.18 on Amazon.com.
American freedom is being threatened.
Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, or just raise our families, we continually run afoul of the government, not because we are doing anything wrong but because the government thinks it knows better than we do.
In his provocative book By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission, political scientist Charles Murray explains why we may not be able to reduce the federal government’s power by normal political processes and how the irreparably broken U.S. political system can be fixed by an army of Davids banding together against the Goliath of Washington, DC.
Power to the People
Murray says the way to fix the seemingly unfixable is to use the legal system to siphon power away from the federal government and into the hands of individuals and...

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